Fixing: How Schizophrenia Changed My Family and Strengthened My Faith

Summary

Perfect for fans of Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason and Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms, Carter Hawley’s Fixing is both an extraordinary account of one mother’s heart-wrenching journey towards radical acceptance in the face of her daughter’s mental illness, and a profound meditation on spiritual surrender. 

Both a love story and a reckoning, Fixing chronicles a family’s journey through a daughter’s diagnosis of schizophrenia and the years of caregiving that followed. What began as a story about managing systems and protecting her child, evolved into a meditation on surrender, faith, and the limits of control.

Written with the honesty of a caregiver and the insight of a faith leader, Carter Hawley’s debut memoir explores what happens when the familiar tools, systems, reason, structure, and prayer, no longer work.